Engineering intricacies

         While reading for my final sem exams, many universally important thoughts started crossing my head and bewilder it. We read from different authors book, whose name become totally gibberish on our tongue. Basically the Engineering subject books are classified into - Local author and Foreign author. Nothing much of a difference. The Foreign author is the person from abroad who usually studies and publishes a book, which is made as the syllabus textbook by the Universities and which in turn are remade by another author from India and published such that they are crisper and readable by an Indian student. Lets analyze the intricacies of both these kinda books which play a vital role in the 4 yrs of an engineering student.
        Local author gives the advantage of  mugging up soon. But there is no way of gaining knowledge out of it. Each sentence will be incoherent & no meaning can be successfully attained from it. The silly grammatical mistakes have always been everlasting in edition after edition of these books. There is sometimes a section called "Important definitions" at the end of each unit, in which some of them wont actually be definitions but their applications & uses. Something i like about a local author book is that they usually have the past year question papers at the back. Hence no need to buy a question bank separately.
        Whereas, a foreign author gives detailed explanations for each topic - too detailed such that when u wanna know the definition of a topic, u can find it only after 5-6 paras in that topic. Sometimes even after a page or so. The most irritating thing is when we are proceeding on with a derivation from chapter 4 interestingly, there will be a line saying "The relation is obtained from section 9.5". Are we supposed to jump to chapter 9 and come back again? One good thing appreciable in foreign author books are that they have a glossary at the back. It always makes it easier to find a topic from syllabus quickly.
         I am a person who needs to understand something in order to learn something & at the same time, i start studying only on the night before the exam. So i usually have both of them - foreign author for understanding & local author for reading soon. Yet my unique idea doesnt always aid me, for i'll be left utterly confused at the end of the day as a result of reading 2 versions of a single concept.

My farewell

      There is still just few more days for my days of fun to end.. Even while i say this, i have a tint of doubt lingering in my heart, questioning - was it that fun filled? The truthfull answer to this is that - might not really be so..
      But what could be really termed as being fun? after all one cannot always be happy. Everything has its ups & downs. One cannot have a true friend as described in the "best friend fwd mails & msgs". One cannot be a perfect enemy as portrayed in the villianistic serials. One cannot be perfectly indifferent of the small comedies made in a class. Its upto us to take all that is good & cherish them in the memory & hope that events similar to these might occur in the future again.
      Having analysed what the word "fun" could possibly mean, i can guarantee for sure i did have fun in the past 4 years invaraiably. Let me recall those moments of fun which i had in these 4 years-

• The first time i made my best friend cry - heart breaking it was, for my eyes started wetting up instantly. The funniest part- we both used the same hand kerchief to wipe both our tears.
• The time when i was asked by the college director to spot out the person who banged the tables during class hours. I didnt mention anyone & yet felt terribly guilty when one of 'em looked thru my eyes.
• Outting with my 2 best friends to queensland & adyar beach (separately with each. Its a long story why i have 2 best friends in 2 different groups)
• The first time saree day - though felt awkward, had a first time different feeling.
• The unknown landline calls at midnight for a couple of days from someone of my class during 2nd yr. The most funniest part was when i heard that my mom scolded the person on call using superb words.. was at tears after laughing so long.. Pity on the person though.. ha ha..
• College symposium - i got to know a lot of ppl & actually many of my friends came to know of the real me by then only. All my classmates saw me beyond my barrier..
• I have cut classes for many reasons: 2nd yr -sympo (my first time of cutting classes), 3rd yr -sympo & tech fest (unsuccessful yet enjoyed a lot), cognizant fest, 4th yr - sympo, presentation for hod, patent rights seminar, exhibition, faculty's seminar, etc (lot many.. forgot 'em).
• The most important of all bunking was when me & my friend went to mcdonalds & had burger & fries there, when we should have been searching music cd for the dance.
• farewell at bus given by the jrs.. i really wished i had atleast one younger sibling then..
• How could i forget to mention.. All thru my coll days i came by coll bus only & all the days were fun filled. We played Anthakshari, Dumsharads & many other games..
• Had an accident in the bus at 1st yr - felt truly very sorry for my bus driver on seeing his guilt ridden face when he looked at my scar. Wished if only i could comfort him by saying that "Please dont be sorry".

                                                                                                          (to be continued...)